Where Is A New Fight Night Game?

[Dirk5049ers]

I def want a new Fight Night way more than another UFC game. UFC was fun, but I only bought it to get my fighting fix. People think that boxing needs to be popular for Fight Night to sell, but that's not true. Since the game was accessible, many people who didn't even follow boxing still enjoyed it. Plus if you go to Canada or overseas, boxing blows MMA out the water, so Fight Night would def sell on a global scale. Just include guys like Froch, Kessler, Bute, Kovalev and Pascal.

[CujoMatty]

ufc is a great game but it's just too complicated to keep me interested.

When it first came out I played quite a bit of it then something else came out and I got away from it. Every once and a while I'll think about playing it again but the thought of having to re learn all the controls keeps me away.

with fight night I could pretty much pick up and play it whenever. I honestly feel like I like the ufc better but it's just too much of a daunting experience virtually.

[BaylorBearBryant]

Am I the only one who thinks they should combine the two in a game called... "Fight Night"? UFC and Boxing? Seems like a no-brainer to me.

[JBless]

great article

[SHAKYR]

Am I the only one who thinks they should combine the two in a game called... "Fight Night"? UFC and Boxing? Seems like a no-brainer to me.

This has to be a joke! This sounds like a very casual fan post. It's a disrespect to boxing and UFC(MMA) and I don't even like MMA.

[steelcityjames]

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they can't get ONE right.........combining the two would be a disaster

[SPRINGS03]

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Yeah, i'd LOOVE a new boxing game, not even necessarily just fight night, but a solid next gen boxing game in general with more focus on sim boxing, i felt like fight night was starting to go down a casual style of over substance path(focus on some cheesy champion mode nobody asked for, marketing violent cuts and cussing like it's a big deal, less focus on the gameplay mechanics, etc.)

[TjJunior]

What's also hurting the Fight Night series is that boxing's most marketable star, Floyd Mayweather Jr., is likely going to retire after this year. Outside of Canelo Alvarez, I don't see a lot of fighters brimming with star potential.

The UFC has marketable fighters like Ronda Rousey, Jon Jones, Connor McGregor, etc., that carry more name recognition that 99% of today's current boxers.

On the flip-side once Floyd does retire, he has shown signs of wanting to invest his money wisely. Why would he not make a Floyd Mayweather boxing game? That's gonna sell to hardcore and casuals alike.

[GlennonTheGr8]

They really need to get a Fight Night sorted out. Every generation of console I've ever had has been complimented by a boxing game. EA need to stop with their stupid excuses about UFC being the be all and end all in fighting sports too. Mayweather vs Pacman will smash every box office there ever was and that's them fighting 4 years later than they should have. Froch vs Groves at Wembley smashed many a record and that wasn't exactly box office for the world of boxing. As for the future, there are a lot of slick operators. There are enough stars past and present to make another class boxing game. EA just need to actually be bothered and have a dedicated boxing team behind them.

[YogiYahooeys]

"When EA picked up the UFC license, there was still the spectre of Brock Lesnar drawing huge pay-per-view buy rates."

Brock Lesnar was beaten down in his last 2 fights after the second of which he promptly retired. That was December 2011. EA Sports UFC was not announced until June 2012.

[regenhuber]

Would buy a new FN game in a second.
I got UFC for x1 but never play it, its toooooo complicated.

[JayBee74]

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Would buy a new FN game in a second.
I got UFC for x1 but never play it, its toooooo complicated.

Bought a wrestling game a couple of months ago that was too complicated for my taste. Got a full refund the next day.

[shavane]

1st and foremost outstanding article. I also hope that fight night returns and I hope it happens soon. I always felt the fight night series was one of the more technically sound games ever made. I love how you have to balance your stamina, time your counters, wear opponents down, let them wear themselves out through head movement, blocking, ring savy and then unleash holy hell on them when the time was right. Fight Night doubles as a button masher but like you said if you take the time to perfect the sweet science you can become a true master. Not to mention its one of the best looking games ever but for me its all about the game play. EA turns me off because most of their decisions are strictly about money as seen in the Madden series and I understand this but for the gamers and fans all we care about are the games we love.

[Wiggy]

"When EA picked up the UFC license, there was still the spectre of Brock Lesnar drawing huge pay-per-view buy rates."

Brock Lesnar was beaten down in his last 2 fights after the second of which he promptly retired. That was December 2011. EA Sports UFC was not announced until June 2012.

To clarify on this, EA and the UFC were still making the deal and these financial decisions in late 2011 or early 2012, so the "spectre" of Brock that I referred to was very real. EA saw a company with high buy rates (because of Brock), and they made the deal with that in mind.

Even when losing, Brock was a huge draw, which explains why he's so coveted by the UFC now.

[majestic]

I don't know much about game development (please correct me if I'm wrong) but if EA has only one fight team and they're only going to make one fight game, wouldn't it make more financial sense to them to continue making UFC games? To make a boxing game it seems like they'd have to build it from the ground up, at least for next-gen systems, whereas for UFC they've already made that investment in a core gameplay system that they can more cheaply build on/tweak for future releases.

Don't get me wrong, as a longtime boxing fan, I'm squarely on team Fight Night. I'm just not very optimistic we'll see a boxing game any time soon from EA, unless boxing surges in popularity, or the UFC series completely tanks.